The relationship of digital transformation and corporate sustainability: Synergies and tensions

IF 12.9 1区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

Technological Forecasting and Social Change Pub Date : 2024-10-30 DOI:10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123809

Roxana Ologeanu-Taddei , Sarah Hönigsberg , Pauline Weritz , Hendrik Wache , Ferdinand Mittermeier , Silviana Tana , Duong Dang , Tuire Hautala-Kankaanpää , Samuli Pekkola

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Scholars within management disciplines have shown a growing interest in digital transformation and sustainability phenomena to address global societal challenges. Indeed, previous studies have investigated the initial analysis of the intersection between these two emerging and intertwined topics. However, there has been no comprehensive or critical analysis of the relationships among these concepts. Nevertheless, a clear understanding of this phenomenon is key to developing rigorous and meaningful knowledge and enabling future research. Our critical review analyses 91 articles on digital transformation and sustainability research to address this issue. The findings propose a synthesis of the definition types of digital transformation and sustainability in four categories, from which only 16 articles show a relationship between both concepts. This study theoretically contributes to management research by uncovering issues and assumptions around the conceptualizations of digital transformation and sustainability at the corporate level. By doing so, we present a consolidation of conceived knowledge and clarify these interrelated concepts. Moreover, understanding and assessing these relationships will lead to a future research agenda and implications for practitioners.

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数字化转型与企业可持续发展的关系：协同效应与紧张关系

管理学科的学者们对数字化转型和可持续发展现象越来越感兴趣，以应对全球社会挑战。事实上，以往的研究已经对这两个新兴且相互交织的主题之间的交叉点进行了初步分析。但是，还没有对这些概念之间的关系进行全面或批判性的分析。然而，对这一现象的清晰认识是发展严谨而有意义的知识并促进未来研究的关键。我们的评论性综述分析了 91 篇关于数字化转型和可持续性研究的文章，以解决这一问题。研究结果将数字化转型和可持续发展的定义类型归纳为四个类别，其中只有 16 篇文章显示了这两个概念之间的关系。本研究通过揭示企业层面数字化转型和可持续发展概念的相关问题和假设，从理论上为管理研究做出了贡献。通过这样做，我们对构想的知识进行了整合，并澄清了这些相互关联的概念。此外，了解和评估这些关系将有助于制定未来的研究议程，并对从业人员产生影响。

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